Andrew Fox <andrew@andrewfox.co.uk> writes
It was all a hoax by Stewart Home in the form of an article in, I think, the Big Issue (a magazine sold by the homeless in the UK).
It did indeed: http://www.codexbooks.co.uk/confExt.html http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/press.txt The Guardian 15-Nov-96 diary text y untitled (MI5 raid on Cauty) 30 officers raided Cauty's home after reading Stewart Home's spoof Big Issue article. http://www.versuspress.com/vsint_sh1.htm "Another example would be the story I made up for The Big Issue about the KLF pop star Jimmy Cauty showing me an arms dump. This resulted in anti-terrorist police making a raid on his farmhouse, then holding him for four hours at Exeter police station." SH has also alleged in other publications that he has been abducted by The KLF in their ice cream van and this is when he first learnt that they subsided The K Foundations activities from setting up the Grey Matter label that sold the likes of bootleg CDs featuring Charles Manson, Reverend Jim Jones and Culturcide.
He is a well known British situationist-type and has done many similar things. He seems to enjoy adding to the KLF myths.
I'm sure that they don't really mind that much... At least Bill still likes Stewart to write up stuff about the both of them and also got Stewart to help him out with this little bit of 'twinning' graffiti at the Hull Festival of Hoaxing: http://www.fnord.demon.co.uk/billskip1.jpg http://www.fnord.demon.co.uk/billskip2.jpg
Surely this must have been covered before....?
Yup! :-> Also, check out: http://www.fringecore.com/magazine/m6-2.html 'The ways you can try and influence are endless. I realise that even more today. I know Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty of KLF now, whereas I didn't earlier on. I was actually talking to Jim Reed who wrote the major body of their work - the manifestos. He was married to a girl I knew from my punk rock days and she'd picked up a couple of my books, which Jim Reed told me he actually used as his model. Jim didn't know anything about writing art manifestos and my Neoist manifestos are in many ways a set of art trimmers to post avant-gardist texts, literally using phrases out of them and rewriting them and denigrating them. So whereas Marinetti writes "we will sing the love of danger" in the Anarcho-Futurist Manifestos, I changed it to "we will sing the love of hot running water and colour television".' Stewart Home` CD "Cyber-Sadism Live!" (Sabotage Editions CD) also contains a short taped interview with Jimmy Cauty about his sonic experiments. (Distributed by Overground: PO Box 148, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3DQ Fax: (0)1273 205502) http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/75613/www-klf-cx/k/art/d-tour.txt http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/reaction/ReAction10a3.pdf Some of you might be interested to know that Stewart Home is doing a reading this Friday at this year`s Edinburgh Festival this Friday. It will be brief and expensive. Here is some blurb: Toby Litt, Stewart Home, Emma Forrest. Provocations Fine Fiction. The Field & Lawn Tent 8.30pm on Friday. Three boldly challenging young authors who have all recently published new books. Toby Litt says he will try to pretend that when he called Stewart Home "a git" he thought this phrase meant spiritied and hampster like. Stewart Home will fake being even older than he is to differentiate himself from Emma Forrest, since there is a slight danger they might be confused by journalists who are tired and emotional after spending too long in Edinburgh. A night not to be missed, that is if you can get to the hotel room party afterwards (don't forget to bring a condom and a bottle of malt). 8 (6 concessions). There have not been any updates to SHS website recently, but there are loads of new texts to go online sometime maybe..... http://www.stewarthomesociety.org